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waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; when the sky falls, we shall catch larks
Proverb
what is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb
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Pure Rules of Huaihai (set of monastery regulations said to have been written by Baizhang Huaihai)
Idiomatic expression; Proverb
single mistake which ruins all one's hard work; one blunder rendering a long period of effort useless; one fart in a hundred days of sermons
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
method of learning through repetition which involves multiplying and other calculations carried out on a 10-by-10 grid of numbers
Proverb
know your enemy, know thyself, and you shall not fear a hundred battles
Proverb; From Sun Tzu's The Art of War
if you know your enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated; know your enemy
Proverb
don't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90
Proverb
a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband